Pedro y la alegría

Throughout history, music has served as the primary method of expression for the nations and cultures that embrace it, as well as an unyielding bridge between past and future generations. Given its unstoppable technological, artistic, and accessibility evolution, what relationship does today's music hold with traditional chants? How do folklore and new urban genres intersect? What does their future look like? Guided by Gese Da O—music producer for artists such as Cruz Cafuné, Quevedo, and Delaossa—alongside Los Sabandeños and the Club de la Zarzuela de Madrid, *La música en el tiempo* seeks answers to these questions.

"Football is synonymous with childhood and the neighborhood," asserts an interviewee in ‘La soledad del jugador de banda’ (‘The Loneliness of the Left Wing-Back’). Through the analogy between football and cinema, this documentary addresses the social, community, and identity-shaping power of the sport. Set against the backdrop of the working-class neighborhoods in southern Madrid, it reveals the desire to make films and the opportunities available to the working class to do so. Thus emerges a metacinematic narrative to reflect on form and the implications of creators and their desires. Furthermore, it explores how the communities built around football interact with the "other"—with the marginalized—through homophobia and machismo in sports. The filmmaker lays himself bare to tell his story as a fan, a player, a queer individual, and an aspiring filmmaker.